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Tight view along the span of the bridge, taken from platform off the south tower; With Leon Moisseiff and Charles Ellis; Irving F. Morrow acted as consulting architect. Design submitted in 1921, built 1933-1937. The Golden Gate Bridge is a suspension bridge spanning the Golden Gate, the opening of the San Francisco Bay onto the Pacific Ocean. As part of both US Highway 101 and State Route 1, it connects the city of San Francisco on the northern tip of the San Francisco Peninsula to Marin County. The Golden Gate Bridge had the longest suspension bridge span in the world when it was completed in 1937 and has become an internationally recognized symbol of San Francisco and the United States. In the 70 years since completion, the span length has been surpassed by seven other bridges. It still has the second longest suspension bridge main span in the United States, after the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge in New York City. Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page (accessed 2/10/2008)